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Relation to Blues music:

Just got The Blues, Other

I play or do:

Keyboards, Other wind

About Me:

Born in Kansas in 1935. Contracted paratyphoid fever 18 hours later. Lived. Adrenalin junkie. Many incidents. Lived. Married Marta Gutierrez in Juarez, Mexico age 17. Annulled. Married 4 more times with 3 losses to death. One divorce. Three children. Chapbook of poetry published by Auerhahn Press, edited by Plymell and Hazelwood in 1963. Few more chapbooks. Flunked out of Univ. of Colorado in 1953, went to Yellowknife River, Great Slav lake prospecting for Uranium. Attended Univ. of Maryland, overseas, Erlangen Univ., Wichita State Univ., Univ. of Hawaii. Mostly flunked. Graduated from Hopkins. Am now married for 21 years of happy miracle. Spent 30 months in Vietnam and was in Merchant Marine, worked Germany, Sweden, Italy, Hong Kong, Kobe, Hokkaido, Naha, Haende, Pusan, Kaioshung, Saigon, Danang, Sattihip, Bahn Pattaya, Kota Bahru, etc. Pub. 4 chapbooks since Dreams. Drove cars for Donald Healy and shortly for Maserati. Rode in a few rodeos and several 4-H rodeos. Retired from City of Baltimore where worked at Youth Coordinator for 24 years.